In China, many people affectionately call Pakistan as BART, which is based on the friendly relations between China and Pakistan. Given the historical, geographic and various reasons for the two peoples' contacts, China-Pakistan relations have always been talked about by the people of China, and those who have traveled to Pakistan often return home to marvel at the warmth and friendliness of the Pakistanis.
This also made some interesting things out of the emergence of some Asian countries (such as South Korea and Japan) people to go to Pakistan to pretend to be Chinese, in Pakistan to enjoy the "BART" treatment.
Of course, many people ask why China-Pakistan relations are so friendly.
In fact, in ancient times, China's relations with Pakistan were mediocre and there was not much direct interaction between the two countries. Relations were also lukewarm for some time after the founding of New China. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, after the fourth Indo-Pakistani war, that China-Pakistan relations were put on the fast track.
As we all know, the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, India dismembered Pakistan into two countries. At this time, Pakistan embraced the United States thighs, before the Americans have been promised to provide security support for Pakistan's lip service, after the fourth Indo-Pakistani war Pakistan is facing the danger of extinction.
Turning over the history of the South Asian subcontinent before the 1980s, you can know that this period of time, India's own neighborhood of small countries to implement a crazy policy of aggression or annexation, Sikkim is the time of the destruction of the country. If China hadn't stepped in to help, it's an open question whether Pakistan would have been exterminated or not.
Counting on the United States, Pakistan can only look north. There is one thing Pakistan is still more reliable, over the years, as China's neighbor, Pakistan's friendship with China is continuous and stable.
The Americans see China's friendly relations with Pakistan from a different perspective, a bit of sour grapes mentality. After all, Pakistan used to be considered a quasi-alliance of the United States, but Americans now take a glance and find that Pakistan's army ranks clear of Chinese tanks, which the Americans say shows the hardness of Sino-Pakistani relations.
U.S. military expert Kalle Larson commented that since the deterioration of U.S.-Pakistani relations in recent years, the tanks equipped by Pakistani army units speak volumes.
Larson pointed out that the Pakistani army in service Lazar tanks and Khalid series tanks are originated from China, especially the Khalid tanks, his prototype in the Chinese army is the 99-type main battle tanks, which is an army equipment to make the world's military experts impressed, and now originated from the same technology of the VT-4 main battle tanks are being sold globally, becoming a major symbol of the export of Chinese weapons and equipment technology. The VT-4 main battle tank is now being sold globally from the same technology, becoming a major symbol of China's arms and equipment technology export.
Pakistan's VT-4 tanks
Larson noted that China's hard relationship with Pakistan makes sense, as evidenced by the Pakistani Army's tanks.
On the contrary, the Americans had sold Pakistan F-16s in the early days, which in hindsight were not advanced weaponry, but the Americans also made restrictive clauses on Pakistan not to use American-made F-16s against the Indian army.
Question, if Pakistan procures fighter jets not to be used against India, what else can it use them for? Is it possible to buy fighter jets for plowing or spraying pesticides?
Now that more and more Chinese weapons are in service with the Pakistani military, including Dragon fighters, AWACS, and drones, it is foreseeable that American weaponry will soon disappear from the Pakistani armed forces.